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Anniversaries
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Births: David Hume, philosopher and historian, 1711; Robert
Browning, poet, 1812; Richard Norman Shaw, architect, 1831;
Johannes Brahms, composer, 1833; Euphrosyne Parepa de Boyesku
Parepa-Rosa, soprano, 1836; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer,
1840; Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery, statesman,
1847; Rabindranath Tagore, poet, 1861; Alfred Edward Woodley Mason,
novelist, 1865; Margaret Fairless Barber (Michael Fairless),
essayist, 1869; Archibald MacLeish, poet and librarian, 1892; Josip
Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia, 1892; Gary Cooper (Frank James
Cooper), film ...
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Crime and No Punishment.(death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Russia's foreign and domestic policies)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...birch trees behind the graves. Anna Politkovskaya, one of the last...reporter but also their dreams for Russia itself. This is the funeral...who embodied the hopes that Russia would become a true western...oligarchs who now own and rule Russia, the good times are in full...
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Urgent: Anna Pyatykh of Russia wins triple jump gold medal at Helsinki worlds
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; Urgent: Anna Pyatykh of Russia wins triple jump gold medal at Helsinki worlds HELSINKI, August 7 (Xinhua) -- Anna Pyatykh of Russia won the gold medal of women's triple jump on Sunday at the world championship in Helsinki.
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Anna Bogali of Russia, Halvard Hanevold of Norway win 12.5 K mass start
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; AP Worldstream 01-11-2004 Dateline: POKLJUKA, Slovenia Anna Bogali of Russia and Halvard Hanevold of Norway won the women's and men's 12.5-kilometer mass start races in the World Cup biathlon Sunday...
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RUSSIA BALLET DEBUTS 'ANNA KARENINA'
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...International 08-13-2004 Russia ballet debuts 'Anna Karenina' ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Aug 13, 2004 (United...A St. Petersburg, Russia, choreographer has started...Tolstoy's 1877 novel, "Anna Karenina." Boris Eifman...
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Looking east.(INTERCHARM--PART I)(Anna Dycheva talks about russia's market)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Cosmetics International
; According to Anna Dycheva, editor in chief of Cosmetic Market Today, Russia's market growth has slowed from 12% to 10% in 2006, a figure most countries would be proud of. Nonetheless, Dycheva said...
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Iron curtain redux: the assassination of a prominent investigative reporter underscores the increasingly repressive climate for journalists in Vladimir Putin's Russia.(Anna Politkovskaya)
Magazine article from: American Journalism Review
; ...past six years, journalists in Russia have been poisoned, bludgeoned...worries that what happened to Anna could happen to me," Chelysheva says, referring to her friend Anna Politkovskaya, an acclaimed...newspapers of any importance left in Russia, was planning the package for...
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RUSSIA: ANNA PAVLOVA'S ASHES TO RETURN TO RUSSIA.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...on 31 August that the ashes of prima ballerina Anna Pavlova will be returned to Russia from London for reburial in Moscow's Novodevichy...stated wish to find her final resting place in Russia. JC Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted...
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A slice of death; Russia.(Anna Politkovskaya's diary)(Diary entry)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; BEFORE she was murdered, Anna Politkovskaya was one of President Vladimir...she became the best-known victim of the Russia he has created. Not that there is any...left by her murder. A Russian Diary. By Anna Politkovskaya.
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Russia: Anna Politkovskaya, award-winning Kremlin critic assassinated.(EUROPE)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: off our backs
; MOSCOW -- Anna Politkovskaya, 48, an award-winning journalist who fearlessly documented...Islamic burials. Politkovskaya is the 24th journalist to be murdered in Russia since 1996. --info from Global Sisterhood Network, Pravda, New York...
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Ashes to Russia? Ballerina Anna Pavlova's Resting Place May Not Be Final
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...her wish to rest one day in Russia. "I'm sure Anna would have returned home to Russia earlier if she was not prevented...a week. "It's very sad. Anna did not want to rest in England...to fight until she is back in Russia."
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